Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Back When , by - Nas. Release date: 31.12.2011
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Back When |
| «You love to hear the story» |
| «How it all, how it all, got started, got started» |
| Start it off, start it off, start it off |
| «Back when, back when, back when, back when |
| Back when, back when, back when, back when» |
| The ill reminisce and think about the fly days |
| Nothing like them 80s summer NY days |
| Hop on the NB5 days |
| Mopeds, Pro Keds, city split five ways |
| How it all started, fifth floor apartment |
| A jigsaw puzzle aerial view of the projects |
| A kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners |
| Now I chill in resorts, enjoying massages |
| Check out the oracle bred from city housing |
| Nas, I arise the dead by thousands |
| I remember seeing Shan chilling near his Audi |
| Hollis Ave, Run and them, but I proudly |
| Put a poster up of Shan and Marley, that was art, kid |
| You love to hear the story how it started |
| The bubbly I’m pouring wasn’t popped yet |
| Before there was a audience to watch us I assure you, there was a process |
| To call them fake today is hate, real niggas extinct |
| Pac left me inside a rap world with niggas that wink |
| At other rappers, undercover niggas spit every way |
| Won’t be surprised if all their rides have federal plates |
| Let alone their wardrobes and Studio 4 flow |
| It was real when I appeared, it would’ve been some jaws broke |
| Nas, my real name, stage name, same thing |
| How could you let these lames claim king? |
| I’m so ashamed, man |
| I light a L for Vernon, for niggas who would burn in Hell |
| For Vernon; |
| 10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare on Elm Street |
| Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials |
| Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true |
| Who possesses the testicular fortitude |
| To blow away myths that’s a hindrance to all of you? |
| You blame your own shortcomings on sex and race |
| The mafia, homosexuals and all the Jews |
| It’s hogwash point of views, stereotypical |
| Anti-Semitic like the foul words Gibson spewed |
| And it’s pathetic |
| , I don’t get the credit I deserve |
| That’s why I hate doing interviews |
| But I don’t sweat it, study long, study raw |
| My man Dion said «Nas over-think the songs he writing» |
| I’m not a wack performer standing near a corny hype man |
| I got the Donism |
| , I’m here to enlighten |